Randy Melen, also connected via Stanford U/Pac Bell, reported
ping losses
at 11:00pm 2/25/01, both from SLAC and Stanford U to his home machine.
Randy also noted on 2/26/01 at 8:50am:

The problem is still there. It is almost a pattern of 5
successful packets, 5 dropped packets, 5 successful packets, 5 dropped
packets, ...

Gary Buhrmaster around 9:30pm 2/25/01, noted that the problems appear
to be in the Stanford
network and noted that:

Accessing some Stanford
web sites is very very slow (this doesn't use
SLAC resources in any way).
If you go to http://monitoring.stanford.edu you
will see some systems "partially operational"
and some "not operational". I presume this is
not supposed to be that way.

Pingroute

Resolution

The problem was reported to Stanfor University network operations center
by Les Cottrell at about 8:30am 2/26/01. At about 11:06 we received
the following email from Wayne Sung of campus:

Pass this along to whomever you think - we somehow wound up with two
routers advertising the same ospf id, causing no end of consternation.
The observation of five good five bad was correct - we were recalculating
every ten seconds.